> From here on, no STEM job or honor awarded to a female or an underrepresented minority will be free from the justified suspicion that the selection was the result of “equity” concerns. The pressure on STEM laboratories and academic faculties to hire by quota rather than by scientific merit grows by the day. And the judgment of scientific research now hinges not on its validity but on whether it allegedly causes “hurt” or impedes the achievement of proportional representation in STEM studies.

And now when hiring you hear "You know X went to Y and he's Asian/international, so you know he's here for the right reasons."

That's one of the reasons DEI advocates want to get rid of standardized testing and favor a "holistic" approach.